President Obama’s demands that Israel stop adding to settlements in the West Bank – repeated forcefully in his speech Cairo today - is drawing protests in Israel.
The Jerusalem Post reports that about 200 people demonstrated outside the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem, chanting “No, you can’t,” in a barbed response to his campaign slogan, “Yes, we can.”
"We decided to launch a campaign against the president of the United States and to say that Barack Hussein Obama is bad for the Jews,” the Jewish National Front said in a statement to the paper.
“From the moment that he entered the White House, we have been feeling anti-Semitism and hatred toward Israel. We have a number of plans, among which are demonstrations in the US and protests in front of the consulate and homes of the ambassadors."
The protests featured a poster making it appear that Obama is shaking hands with a smiling Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in front of a mushroom cloud.
Israel needs to grow up. Their hard-line attitude is getting tiresome and the fear-mongering is pitiful.
Obama is spot on to tell them as much. Get out of the occupied territories, recognize each others right to exist and get on with life.
Posted by: CN Clearly | June 06, 2009 at 09:25 AM